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W. H. REDINGTON.

BOTTLE COVER.

No. 310,615. Patented Jan. 13,1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrce.

IVILLIAM H. REDINGTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO H. K. FREEMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,615, dated January 13, 1885.

' A pplicailon filed July 19. 1881. (X0 model.)

To all, whom it may concern Be it known that I, \VILLIAM H. BEIJING-- 'ION, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-(lovers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a suitable cover or cap for glass bottles which is cheap, efficient, easily affixed, and which can be attached before the bottle is filled and corked.

To these ends my invention consists in a cover which is connected to a suitable supporting rim or band of metal, the latter being spun upon the mouth of the bottle.

My invention is peculiarly adapted to inkbottles. \Vhen applied to such bottles, they may be filled with ink and corked for shipment, and when the cork is removed and thrown aside the cover may be brought int-o use, thus converting a common ink-bottle into a permanent inkstand.

.In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of an ink-bottle provided with my improved cover. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a bottle, partly in section, provided with said cover, the latter being shown in vertical crosssection.

The bottle A may be made in any desired form; but I prefer to make it broad at the base and short in the body when designed for an ink-receptacle. I also prefer to make the mouth flaring, as this form is best adapted to receive the supporting rimor band for the cover, and also because said band may be spun into the mouth in such manner as to secure it to the bottle without interfering with the insertion or removal of the cork. The band of metal B, to which the cap or cover 0 is fitted, is stamped out of sheet metal in the required shape, and afterward affixed to the bottle by spinning it into the mouth and turning it over the edge thereof. Of course this blank is provided with a central opening, through which the cork is inserted or removed. The cap or cover 0 is also preferably stamped out of light sheet metal. It is secured to the band Bin such manner that it may be swung or shifted laterally in order to open the bottle.

A very cheap and at the same time effective way of connecting the cover to the band is to provide each with a hole near their outer edges, through which a small metal pin, D, is inserted, the said pin being then bent out over the edge of the mouth of the bottle, or inward under the band B, which latter, being spun or pressed down over it, securely holdsitin place. This pin, while it secures the cover to the band, also forms a pivot, on which the cover is swung when it is desired to open the bottle.

I am aware that it is not new to attach covers of different forms to glass inkstands, and hence I do not claim such devices, broadly; but I believe it to be new ,to provide ordinary ink-bottles which are designed to be filled and then shipped with asuitable cover adapted to be affixed before the cork is inserted, and so adapting such bottles, when the cork is re moved, to the purposes of a permanent inkstand.

The devices herein shown can be manufactured at a small initial cost, as they are all capable of being made and applied by machinery.

I claim- In combination with a bottle, a cover there for formed by the combination of the band or rim B, cap 0, and pin D, substantially as de scribed.

\VILLIAM H. REDINGTON.

Vitncsses:

O. G. LINTHIOUM, E. F. HUBBARD. 

